Communications of the ACM
Can Generative AI Bots Be Trusted?
It will be a long road to learning how to use generative AI wisely.
From ACM Opinion
Teens and Social Media: The Question We're Not Asking
Should they be using these services at all?
From ACM Opinion
Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Timnit Gebru believes the incentives around AI research are all wrong
From ACM Opinion
'Yeah, We're Spooked', Says Expert about AI's Potential Impact
Professor Stuart Russell says field of AI needs to grow up quickly to ensure humans remain in control
From ACM Opinion
AI and the Intelligence Community: The Tangled Web of Budget and Acquisition
The intelligence community still faces basic hurdles as it moves to transition and integrate AI at speed and scale
From ACM Opinion
Why We Forgive Humans More Readily Than Machines
When things go wrong, flexible moral intuitions cause us to judge computers more severely
From ACM Opinion
Social Media Cos. Help African Governments Abuse 'Disinformation Laws'
Social media platforms alternate between ignoring disinformation and launching broad crackdowns on user speech
From ACM Opinion
Meta's Andrew Bosworth on Moving Facebook to the Metaverse
'The magnitude of technological shifts that we are trying to manifest here hasn't been attempted in a long time'
From ACM Opinion
RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
Stanford JD-PhD candidate Peter Henderson talks about creating robust decision-making systems and ML methods that benefit society
From ACM Opinion
Complexity Is Killing Software Developers
How to regain control, without losing out on the best these technologies have to offer
From ACM Opinion
The Metaverse Is Simply Big Tech, but Bigger
It's a rebrand of Silicon Valley's increasing power and reach, and it's made for companies, not people
From ACM Opinion
Anne Carpenter: Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights from Cell Images
Computational biologist brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images
From ACM Opinion
Strong AI Requires Autonomous Building of Composable Models
Models built by AI must encode the fundamental patterns of experience
From ACM Opinion
Nicki Washington: How Tackling Tech's Diversity Challenges Can Spur Innovation
Computer scientist and educator says technology's diversity problems begin in learning and working environments
From ACM Opinion
Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
From ACM Opinion
Who Is Writing Our Digital Future, and Why It Matters?
The world is not built for everybody—we must make sure every voice is heard and every body seen
From ACM Opinion
Computer Science Education Is a Global Challenge
Analysis in the Brookings report shows a correlation between a country's economic position and implementation of computer science in schools.
From ACM Opinion
Avoiding AI's Bad Reputation
AI-based advertising models 'give tech a bad name,' says Autodesk CEO Andrew Anagnost
From ACM Opinion
What's Missing from the Push to Diversify Tech?
Focusing on hiring pipelines or career pathways alone won't solve tech's diversity and inclusion problems.
From ACM Opinion
Where Computing Might Go Next
The future of computing depends in part on how we reckon with its past
From ACM Opinion